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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Botany
• Land New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence Dulwich Hill, New South Wales
• Family Son of Edwin and Margaret West, of Darleyoak, Rylstone, New South Wales
  Two brothers, Harry Walter and Clifford Sydney, also served, both survived;
• Profession Carpenter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 13 May 1916, New South Wales
• Service number 5914
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 20th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Enlisted at the age of 14 years and 8 months; Embarked 7 October 1916; promoted Lance Corporal at the age of sixteen; wounded 3 May 1917, returned to the trenches one week later; appointed Lance Corporal 30 June 1917

Death

• Wounded 3 May 1917, shrapnel wound right arm, France
  6 October 1917, shrapnel wound back and upper arm, Belgium
• Type of wounds Died of wounds in n°2 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 16
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - I - 19A

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